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Before he left Congress last year, John J. LaFalce, as the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, sought to curb so-called predatory lending by companies that make loans to people with weak credit ratings. His efforts were...

Just for a while there, Florence Acotto suspected that this forlorn city, soon to be home to New York's first Las Vegas-style casino, might have sold its soul to the devil. Not that she put it that way, exactly. A woman who is serious about her...

Representative John J. LaFalce, a consumer advocate on the House Financial Services Committee, announced yesterday in Washington that he would retire after 28 years in the House rather than go through a tough fight for renomination. New York's...

Concluding the painful process of eliminating two of New York's seats in Congress, the Legislature passed a redistricting bill today that leaves four incumbents fighting for two seats, in western New York and the Hudson Valley. The outlines of the...

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new ethics rules for stock analysts today as its chairman faced growing calls to step down for being insensitive to his own conflicts of interest and for undermining public confidence in the markets. ...

House Republicans are circulating proposals for post-Enron legislation that they say will strengthen federal standards for auditor independence and corporate financial disclosure. After several weeks of hearings into the Enron bankruptcy,...

Two senior House lawmakers are proposing legislation intended to cut off the flow of money to terrorists. The measure, by Representatives Michael G. Oxley, the Ohio Republican who heads the House Financial Services Committee, and John J. LaFalce...

TANZANIA, half of whose population is illiterate, spends a third of its budget on debt payments and spends four times more on debt than it does primary education. Niger, where life expectancy is only 47 years, spends more on debt payments than it...

In the annals of American politics, few lawmakers have done more to help members of Congress raise money, unwitting though they were, than Carter Glass and Henry Steagall, the authors of a Depression-era law that sharply limited the cross-ownership...